Top Reasons for Gallatin County Republicans to Keep Immigration Reform as an Important Issue in the County
- 1 Immigration reform, together with DOGE, was the top winning issue for Republicans in the 2024 elections among Latinos who come here to assimilate and work their way up to a decent quality of life. By twisting the narrative away from Quality Learning Centers to ICE allegedly deporting US citizens for their skin color and accents, Democrats managed not only to turn Latinos against Republicans but also to induce mass psychosis among Americans who don’t understand what’s going on. To win back on this issue, Republicans first have to recognize the problem.
- 2 The Bozeman school district spends over ~$800,000 tax dollars per year on ML/EL staffing and supports. It discourages immigrants from learning English and assimilating, while making them more dependent on government assistance.
- 3 MSU Bozeman has around 500 (some sources say more than 700) international students on F-1 visas. Bozeman’s Office of International Programs offers students with a GPA of 2.5+ scholarships from $5,000 to $12,000 per year for freshmen-level qualifiers. In comparison, a minimum requirement to get accepted to colleges in the UC system is 3.0 GPA for California residents, 3.4 GPA for out-of-state and international students.
- 4 MSU offers student exchange programs fully or partially funded by scholarships to and from China. China has zero interest in cultural or any other mutually beneficial exchange with American universities. They are interested in stealing our IP and exporting communism to the USA. MSU is a public university, and we can demand that our state government force its administration to stop anti-American DEI policies.
- 5 Other than Canadians and drug cartels, no one outside of America knows that Montana and Bozeman exist. Most immigrants who came here during the Biden administration are here either because they were told that in Bozeman it’s easy to get into the social-welfare system and parasitizing on the dime of American taxpayers, or are brought by human smugglers to work in slave-like conditions, or are members of drug cartels.
- 6 Several bills that aimed to make Montana a sanctuary state were introduced during the 2025 legislative session. It’s no coincidence that Tim Walz’s daughter lived in Bozeman when the city commissioners worked on their Belonging to Bozeman plans. If we lose the Republican majority in Montana, these bills will come back and could end up on the governor’s desk. We cannot rely purely on his vetoes.